Focus on Creolist: Richard Allsopp
From the Editor
A Bibliography of Lingua Franca by Jacques ArendsSpotlight on Our Creolist Ian Hancock
Society for Caribbean Linguistics: Lise Winer
Obituary: Aiko Tokimasa Reinecke
My Language Journey to Find My Hawaii by Elena Catabu
Poems by Gene Wilkes
Book Reviews
From Contact to Creole and Beyond. Edited by Philip Baker
Reviewed by Jeffrey WilliamsFrench and Creole in Louisiana. Edited by Albert
Reviewed by Karin SpeedyDefining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival. By Barbara Lalla
Reviewed by Lise WinerGrammaticalization in creoles: the development of determiners and relative clauses in Sranan. By Adrienne, Bruyn
Reviewed by Magnus HuberChanging meanings, changing functions: Papers relating to grammaticalization in contact languages. Edited by Philip Baker and Anand
Reviewed by Marlyse BaptistaContact languages: A wider perspective. Edited by Sarah G. Thomason
Reviewed by Michael AcetoThe Morphosyntax of Nominal and Verbal Categories in Capeverdean Creole. By Marlyse Baptista
Reviewed by Alain KihmLafami Bonplezi. Florida. By Maude Hertelou
Sezisman! Pou Lafanmi Bonplezi. By Maude Hertelou
Reviewed byMarie-Annick Gourne
Focus on Creolist: Hein Eersel
From the Editor
Colonial Vestiges in Kamtok Pronunciation by Augustin Simo Bobda
Obituaries: Chris Corne and John Joseph Maria Figueroa
News on our Creolists and Poetry by Trefossa
Book Reviews
Reviewed by Miriam MeyerhoffBig Wok: Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu [Big Work: The story of World War II in Vanuatu]. By Lamont Lindstrom and James Gwero
Écrire en créole. Oralité et écriture aux Antilles. By Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux, Paris
Reviewed by David Sutcliffe
Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. By Mark Sebba
Reviewed by Ingo Plag
L’angolar. Un créole afro-portugais parlé à São Tomé. By Philippe Maurer
Reviewed by John Ladhams
Substrate influence in the formation of Surinamese Plantation Creole: A consideration of sociohistorical data and linguistic data from Ndyuka and Gbe. By Bettina M. Migge
Reviewed by John McWhorter
Lenguas criollas de base lexical española y portuguesa. Edited by Klaus Zimmermann
Reviewed by John Ladhams
English Haitian-Creole Science Dictionary. By Féquière Vilsaint and Maude Heurtelou
Reviewed by Jeffrey Allen
Dictionary of Louisiana Creole. By Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall & Kevin J. Rottet
Reviewed by Annegret Bollée
Les Créoles: l’Indispensable Survie. By Marie-Christine Hazaël-Massieux
Reviewed by Paul B. Garrett
The structure and status of pidgins and creoles. Including selected papers from the meetings of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics. Edited by Arthur K. Spears and Donald Winford
Reviewed by Adrienne Bruyn
Limonese Creole: A Case of Contact Induced Language Change. By Elizabeth Winkler
Reviewed by Geneviève Escure
Ndyuka. (Descriptive Grammars series, 18). By George L. Huttar, & Mary L. Huttar
Reviewed by Bettina Migge
Die haitianischen Tiersprichwörter und ihre Herkunft. By Sonja Fuchs
Reviewed by Angela Bartens
Focus on Creolist: Albert Valdman
Kamtok: The Unifying Language of Cameroon by Miriam Ayafor
Obituary: Fred Cassidy
Poetry by Donna Weir-Soley and Malachi Smith
Broken English,The Creole Language of Carriacou. Studies in Ethnolinguistics, By Ronald E. Kephart
Reviewed by Laura Wright
Talkin that talk: Language, culture and education in African America. Geneva Smitherman, London: Routledge. 2000.
Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic pride and racial prejudice. John Baugh. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000
Spoken Soul. John Russell Rickford and Russell John Rickford. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2000.
Reviewed by John McWhorter
Processi di convergenza e differenziazione nelle lingue dell’Europa medievale e moderna [Processes of convergence and differentiation in the languages of Mediaeval and Modern Europe] .Edited by F. Fusco, V. Orioles & A. Parmeggiani
Reviewed by Hildo Honório do Couto
A Grammar of Belizean Creole: Compilations from Two Existing United States Dialects. By Laurie A. Greene
Reviewed by Elizabeth Grace Winkler
El Caribe hispánico: perspectivas, linguisticas actuales. Homenaje a Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Edited by Luis A. Ortiz Lopez
Reviewed by Frank Martinus
Aspectos del lenguaje afronegroide en Venezuela. By William W. Megenney
Reviewed by Alexandra Alvarez
From French to Creole: The development of new vernaculars in the French colonial world. By Chris Corne
Reviewed by Morris Goodman
Saint-Barthélemy: une énigme linguistique. By Louis-Jean Calvet and Robert Chaundenson
Reviewed by Julianne Maher
Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, by Richard Allsopp
Reviewed by Ian Hancock
The Sango language and its lexicon (Sênda-yângâ tî sängö). Travaux de l’institut de linguistique de Lund 32. By Christina Thornell
Reviewed by Helma Pasch
A language of our own: the genesis of Michif, the mixed Cree-French language of the Canadian Métis. By Peter Bakker
Reviewed by Rik van Gijn
Feature Articles:
Focus on Creolist: Salikoko Mufwene, by Robert Chaundenson
Da Jesus Book: Hawai’i Creole English, by Suzanne Romaine
Obituaries: Stephen Wurm & Carla Lujiks
Salikoko Mufwene: From the Congo to Chicago, by Michel DeGraff
Book Reviews:
Out of Africa: African influences in Atlantic Creoles. By Mikael Parkvall
Reviewed by Enoch Oladé Aboh
Les îles du Cap-Vert aujourd’hui: Perdues dans l’immensité, by Nicolas Quint
Reviewed by Jacques Arends
An introduction to pidgins and creoles. By John Holm
Pidgins and creoles: an introduction. By
Ishtla Singh
Reviewed by Anthony Grant
Relexification in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, with Special Attention to Haitian Creole, Modern Hebrew, Romani and Rumanian. Edited by Julia Horvath & Paul Wexler
Reviewed by Ian Hancock
Spreading the Word: The issue of diffusion among the Atlantic Creoles (Westminster Creolistic Series 6). Edited by Magnus Huber and Mikael Parkvall
Reviewed by Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino
Entwisted Tongues. Comparative Creole Literatures. By George Lang
Reviewed by Susanne Mühleisen
Creoles, Pidgins, and Sundry Languages: Essays in Honor of Pieter Seuren. Ed. by Jacques Arends
Reviewed by Suzanne Romaine
Foreign Language Teaching and Language Minority Education. By Kathryn A. Davis (ed)
Reviewed by Jeff Siegel